Teresa Margolles (born 1963) is an artist whose work evidences the pervasive impact of the so-called “narco war” in her native Mexico through her installations that use bodily residue to make viscerally available the deaths of the individual victims who are denied a voice. Exhibitions include: Teresa Margolles, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, forthcoming 2017; Teresa Margolles, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, 2016; We Have a Common Thread, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2015; The Promise, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico, 2012; Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, 2012; and Frontera, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2010−2011 and Museion, Bolzano, 2011. Margolles lives and works in Mexico City and Madrid. [Last updated 2016]
